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U.S. Embassy Turkey Openly Lies About U.S. YPG Support
U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Turkey – December 28 2016
The truth regarding misinformation in Turkish media concerning United States and Coalition operations against ISIL in Syria:
There is considerable misinformation circulating in Turkish media concerning U.S. and Coalition operations against ISIL in Syria. For those interested in the truths, here are the truths:
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The United States government has not provided weapons or explosives to the YPG or the PKK – period.
Washington Post – December 28 2016
On the road to Raqqa:
At the heart of the issue is the U.S. military’s policy of sending arms to the area controlled by the main Syrian Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units, widely known as the YPG.
The decision has paid off so far. The YPG — which constitutes the Kurdish component of the SDF — has proved to be the United States’ most effective military ally in Syria, and it has retaken vast swaths of territory.
The embassy statement denying weapon and ammunition support for the YPG is obviously a lie. That the U.S. provides and provided weapons and ammunition to the YPG since 2014 is definitely true.
The same U.S. Embassy statement also denied that the U.S. supports or supported ISIS aka DAESH:
The United States government is not supporting DAESH. The USG did not create or support DAESH in the past. Assertions the United States government is supporting DAESH are not true.
There are many indications and that the U.S. actively supported ISIS aka DAESH in at least in its early years.
In 2013 the Georgian Special Forces officer of Chechen heritage Abu Omar al-Shishani, who had had extensive U.S. military training, was the ISIS commander that led ISIS and the U.S. supported Free Syrian Army under U.S. paid FSA Colonel Abdul Jabbar al-Okaidi in the capture of the Syrian Air Force base Menagh.
Who supplied and paid ISIS for that service?
Recent ISIS videos taken near al-Bab show ISIS attacks on Turkish Leopard 2A4 tanks with U.S. manufactured TOW anti-tank missiles. Those fell from the sky?
The statement by the U.S. Embassy in Turkey is easily proven to be an outright lie. Why the State Department believes it is smart to officially put out such blatant untruth is inconceivable. It surely does not add to the credibility of any of its other statements.
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Screenshot of the embassy statement:
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@Paveway & others, see this from Gareth Porter a few days ago, detailing the Obama administration’s role in Syria in alliance with other states from 2011 onwards:
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/27/obamas-dive-into-the-syrian-abyss/
In particular:
“The Obama administration even agreed to the Sunni states’ provision of anti-tank weapons to an armed opposition now openly dominated by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.”
The rationale behind this, according to Porter’s sources:
The administration was unwilling to be at cross-purposes with its Sunni allies, the former official recalled, because of the direct U.S. military interests at stake in its alliances with those three states: the Saudis effectively controlled U.S. access to the naval base in Bahrain, Turkey controlled the airbase at Incirlik, and Qatar controlled land and air bases that had become central to U.S. military operations in the region.
There’s also this 3-minute BBC report from Mosul in which they track ISIS weapons (Conflict Armament Research is the group they cover). They document bags of industrial explosives chemicals purchased in Turkey, and, more telling, “crates of ammunition and rockets manufactured in eastern Europe. These were bought by the governments of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. They were supposed to be shipped through Turkey to rebel groups the U.S. and Saudi Arabia support in Syria, but instead, sometimes as little as two months from manufacture, these fell into the hands of IS, and are now being used to kill U.S.-backed Iraqi forces.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bwCj3lfsg
And on the YPG issue:
http://ig.ft.com/sites/2015/isis-oil/
“On January 9, 2016, Isis lost its first oil field since it seized much of Eastern Syria in 2014. The YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia, captured the al-Jabsah oil field under the cover of US-led coalition air strikes. The field was producing about 3,000 barrels per day.”
Notice here that the Exxon and Chevron oil deals in Kurdistan (signed c. 2012 despite protests by Washington and Baghdad) were threatened by ISIS and that’s when the U.S. military support for Kurds really took off.
Also, Israel comes in third in importance in this picture, behind the Sunni states and the oil corporations, when it comes to U.S. policy in the region; Israel wants to oppose Iran and Syria on general principles, related to Hezbollah, see Porter again:
In fact, however, Iran regarded Syria as crucial to its ability to resupply Hezbollah, whose large arsenal of missiles was in turn a necessary element in Iran’s deterrent to an Israeli attack.
So if the State Department was honest, they’d admit to directly and indirectly arming anyone at all in Syria who seemed likely to help overthrow Assad, from “moderate rebels” to Al Qaeda and ISIS, but that, alarmed at the global rise of ISIS and their threat to Kurdish oil extraction, they also started supporting Kurdish forces like YPG, and now its another giant “shitstorm” , like Libya, that they have little control over. They’d admit to supporting a shortsighted ridiculous policy that blew up in their face, flooded Europe with refugees, spread ISIS terrorism around the world, and that they were completely blindsided by Russia’s intervention in 2015. But, they’d never publicly admit to being responsible for such a massive debacle; now it’s cover-our-butts time.
Posted by: nonsense factory | Dec 29 2016 17:25 utc | 25
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